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What Is Federation ?
Education, youth services
by Jan and Jerry Weiner
The Atlanta Jewish Community
is blessed with a number of local
agencies which provide certain
services to members of the Atlanta
Jewish community. Because of
these services, the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Federation helps to
support these local agencies.
In the last article we dealt with
Jewish day schools which provide
an opportunity for intensive
Jewish education to the children in
Atlanta. There is one local agency
which is the central community
agency to help promote Jewish
education in the Atlanta area.
The Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education is affiliated with the
American Association for Jewish
Education, the national
coordinating agency for Jewish
education, and is funded by the
Jewish Federation.
According to the director of the
Bureau, Dr. Leon H. Spotts, its
fundamental purpose is to
promote, coordinate, serve and
conduct a variety of Jewish
educational activities for children,
youth and adults in the Atlanta
area. This purpose, according to
Dr. Spotts, is accomplished
through both functional educative
programs, which the Bureau
directly operates, and service
activities, whereby the various
local shcools and organizations
receive educational services from
the Bureau
In addition, the Bureau
undertakes to innovate new
educational programs and
activities. In order to become even
more responsive to the Jewish
educational needs of the
community, a study of the Bureau
and its services is now underway.
The Bureau provides a number
of special learning programs for
members of the Atlanta Jewish
community. Currently there are
about 65 students at the Atlanta
high School of Jewish Studies.
The Havanah Program for Special
Education provides religious
education for exceptional children
who cannot function effectively in
a regular school setting.
The Atlanta Leadership
Experience in Israel (ALE1) is a
six-week educational program in
Israel conducted each summer by
the Bureau for eligible Jewish
teenagers. Teenagers who have
joined the program are most
enthusiastic about their
experiences.
The Institute of Adult Jewish
Studies is a community program of
adult education in Hebraic and
Judaic studies conducted on
Wednesday evenings.
The Bureau also provides such
services as a consultation service to
Jewish schools, teacher training,
teacher certification and a library
and educational resource center.
This center currently contains
3,500 books, 1,000 pamphlets, and
250 filmstrips.
In addition, the Bureau offers
teacher placement for local Jewish
schools, a speakers bureau,
consultation to community groups
and Hebrew and Judaic studies
programs in high schools and
universities. Through the Bureau
there is also the Jewish
Educational Directors Council
which is a professional council
consisting of the directors of
Dr. Spotts and High School of Jewish Studies students.
Atlanta’s Jewish schools.
The Bureau, of course, is not the
only agency which provides
services particularly to the young
people in the city. The Atlanta
Hillel, jointly sponsored by the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Federation and the National B'nai
B’rith Hillel, currently serves the
needs of 3,500 college students on
the campuses of Emory, Georgia
Tech, Georgia State and
Oglethorpe University. Located in
a home made available by the
University — on Emory’s
campus —H illel sponsors a
complete program of Shabbat
activities, holiday services,
community lectures and classes, as
well as trips to Israel for college
students.
The same type of services are
provided to the University of
Georgia students by the B’nai
B’rith Hillel Foundation, which
works together with the
Congregation Children of Israel (to
provide students with a wide range
of Jewish educational and cultural
activities and studie^to help witff
their Jewish identity/
Ihe younger set in Atlanta is
given the opportunity to learn and
have fun with other Jewish young
people through the B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization. More than
800 young people are enrolled in
the many AZA and BBG chapters
throughout the city. Under the
guidance of adult advisors,
teenagers from 8th through 12th
grades learn responsibility,
leadership training, and enjoy
programs covering a wide variety
of interests from Judaism to
athletics and community service.
While the first AZA chapter was
established in 1923 and the first
BBG chapter was established in
1944, there are now 20 BBG
chapters and 17 AZA chapters in
the city. All of these groups of
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It is through various agencies
and programs such as these, that
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Federation touches and enriches
the lives of the Atlanta Jewish
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